/quartetsampling

Quartet Sampling method for phylogenetic branch support evaluation

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Quartet Sampling

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Quartet Sampling is a method to analyze molecular phylogenies by calculating branch support using repeated sampling of quartets. Quartet Sampling differs from other support methods by combining a set of of tests into a single, efficient framework to address phylogenetic discordance. QS is particularly useful for very large and data-sparse alignments or large phylogenomic datasets.

Latest Update

Version 1.3.1 - Adds RESULTS.node.count.csv that provides counts and representative topologies for the three quartet arragements. This is useful when QD is low in determining the more common discordant option.

Usage

For complete details, see the manual for Quartet Sampling (https://github.com/FePhyFoFum/quartetsampling/blob/master/quartetsampling.pdf).

NEW! Visualization

Shuiyin Liu has created a new R-script that can visualize QS results:

https://github.com/ShuiyinLIU/QS_visualization

Please reference his URL separately, if you use this visualization script.

How to Cite

James B Pease, Joseph W Brown, Joseph F Walker, Cody E Hinchliff, Stephen A Smith. 2018. Quartet Sampling distinguishes lack of support from conflicting support in the green plant tree of life. American Journal of Botany. 105(3): 385–403. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1016

Link to publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1016

Please also include the URL (https://www.github.com/fephyfofum/quartetsampling).

Be sure also to cite RAxML-ng, RAxML, PAUP, or IQ-TREE (depending on which engine you use).

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License

This file is part of 'quartetsampling'

'quartetsampling' is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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